Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [verb] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | City of London Polytechnic and Oxford Polytechnic were two of the institutions which sought to combine an interdisciplinary approach with a modular structure . |
| 2 | It was a small room , full of photographs , many in silver frames , which helped to give an Edwardian flavour to the general appearance . |
| 3 | By the second half of the century , the teaching laboratory had become a feature of any university , especially in Germany , which tried to attract an eminent person like Du Bois-Reymond or Carl Ludwig by promising him an ‘ institute ’ with research and teaching facilities . |
| 4 | This description of the extended professional takes some account of Stenhouse 's criticism of Hoyle 's earlier formulation which seemed to emphasise an uncritical acceptance of theory and consequently reduced teacher autonomy . |
| 5 | It was somehow better than making her own suppositions , which seemed to take an awful amount of energy and caused a lot of stress . |
| 6 | The senior management team spent one and a half days in Cheddar , Somerset , on a variety of teamworking tasks , one of which included mapping an underground cavern . |
| 7 | In October 1986 the second Gorbachev-Reagan summit at Reykjavik , ended in failure when the American refused to abandon his ‘ Strategic Defense Initiative ’ , launched three years earlier , which aimed to create an anti-ballistic missile system . |
| 8 | Accordingly a series of steps were taken which aimed to establish an academic culture within which evaluation activities were widespread and respected ; evaluation skills and expertise were readily available ; and evaluation gradually became an expected element in the body of knowledge and skills possessed by professional higher education practitioners . |
| 9 | Congress on Feb. 4 approved a further extension of unemployment benefits which aimed to provide an additional 13 weeks of benefits to some 2,000,000 unemployed workers , many of whose benefits were about to expire . |
| 10 | H. E. Alexander describes the four basic aspects to this legislation as public disclosure of the monetary influences on elected officers , expenditure limits to meet the problem of rising costs , contribution restrictions to meet the problem of candidates obligating themselves to certain interest groups , and public funding which aimed to provide an alternative source of funding to replace the prohibited and limited contributions under FECA . |
| 11 | Adherents of the current PAL broadcasting standard , including the UK Sky Broadcasting Corporation , had clashed with the electronics manufacturers Philips and Thomson which had developed an improved system known as HD-MAC . |
| 12 | Talks sponsored by Djibouti President Hassan Gouled Aptidon brought together in Djibouti on June 5-15 the leaders of four Somali groups — the United Somali Congress ( USC ) , which had formed an interim administration in Mogadishu in January [ see pp. 37946-47 ] ; the Somali Salvation Democratic Front ( SSDF ) ; the Somali Patriotic Movement ( SPM ) : and the Somali Democratic Movement ( SDM ) . |
| 13 | The Faro a Colón ( Columbus Lighthouse ) , a favourite project of President Joaquín Balaguer which had cost an estimated US$25,000,000 , was intended to be inaugurated during a visit by Pope John Paul II on Oct. 9-14 . |
| 14 | The conference , which had adopted an electoral timetable on Aug. 24 involving a referendum on the new constitution on Feb. 9 , 1992 , followed by local , legislative and , finally , presidential elections , elected a Prime Minister on Aug. 27 to head a transitional government . |
| 15 | Such an ‘ abuse ’ was exemplified by the courts in Wheeler v. Leicester City Council where the City Council ( which had adopted an anti-apartheid policy ) banned the Leicester Rugby club from using a Council recreation ground because three members of the club had joined an English touring side to South Africa . |
| 16 | This meant that changes in crime rates , or variations between different settings ( such as urban and rural ) , which had played an important part in theories relating social or economic conditions and change to crime , could equally well be explained by variations in crime-recording practices . |
| 17 | Believing that death was at hand he confirmed the territorial dispositions made at Montmirail and asked to be buried at the monastery of Grandmont in the Limousin , one of the monks of which had played an important part in the peace negotiations . |
| 18 | The revival of the Hindu-Moslem dispute , which had played an important part in the November election campaign [ see pp. 36977 ; 37030 ] , had threatened to provoke further communal tensions in the period leading up to the Bihar state assembly elections at the end of February [ see p. 37245 ] . |
| 19 | As she learnt to be a friend to herself , she attracted close friends for the first time — and the disasters which had become an accepted part of her life became more and more rare . |
| 20 | On the issue of emergency urban aid , a subject which had become an urgent priority following the Los Angeles riots at the end of April [ see pp. 38856 ; 38894 ] , Senate and House conferees agreed on a $2,000 million relief package on June 5 . |
| 21 | On March 14 , 1989 , the Indiana I , a Bahamian-registered vessel which had begun an irregular ferry service from the Falkland Islands to the South American mainland in January , was intercepted by a Brazilian naval vessel and prevented from docking at Rio Grande in southern Brazil . |
| 22 | He said that the control of inflation , which had reached an annualized rate of 13,000 per cent in 1990 , was the most pressing economic problem . |
| 23 | In mid-January India had secured from the IMF the equivalent of US$1,800 million ( $777 million as the first tranche of a standby arrangement and $1,009 million under the compensatory and contingency financing facility — CCFF ) in order to boost foreign exchange reserves which had been eroded by rising oil prices and the loss of remittances from the Gulf and which had reached an unprecedented low in late 1990 . |
| 24 | From mid-August 1989 , 25 people were officially reported to have been killed and 109 wounded in 220 drug-related bombings which had caused an estimated US$17,000,000 in damages . |
| 25 | The Liberian crisis , which had caused an estimated 700,000 refugees to flee into Côte d'Ivoire , Guinea and Sierra Leone in the previous 16 months , continued to preoccupy leaders of the 16 members of ECOWAS , concerned for the stability of their region . |
| 26 | They had preferred to believe their own state-controlled media , which had predicted an Iraqi victory . |
| 27 | Also , during the fifteenth century there was a more considerable transforming influence in the movement for enclosures , which had brought an increasing area under grazing at the expense of arable ( Ch.5 ) . |
| 28 | Lillie next appears in the story addressing the 1965 meeting of the International Whaling Commission which had taken an intermittent and desultory interest in so-called humane killing of whales . |
| 29 | International prop PHILIPPE GIMBERT from Beglès-Bordeaux , a club which had acquired an unsavoury reputation even before they won the French Championship , has been fined FF8,000 ( about £850 ) for damages resulting from a punch in a club match against Rodez in December 1990 . |
| 30 | You know the kind that if you lived in a house which had got an uneven floor when you opened the door the wardrobe falls over towards you . |